Uganda launches online portal to report child sexual abuse
Uganda’s National Information Technology Authority(NITA-U), National Computer Emergency Response Team of Uganda (CERT.UG), Internet Society Uganda Chapter, the Ministry of Internal Affairs with support from Facebook and MTN, along with UK-based Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) launched a new campaign ‘Help Children Be Children’ to protect children from online sexual abuse.
People can now report images or videos of children suffering from sexual abuse online using the web-portal www.stopit.ug. Once reported, the images and /or videos will be assessed by IWF analysts and if found to contain child sexual abuse, they can be blocked and removed from the internet.
Uganda’s National Information Technology Authority, the National Computer Emergency Response Team of Uganda, Internet Society Uganda Chapter, the Ministry of Internal Affairs with support from Facebook and MTN, and with UK-based Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) launched a new campaign ‘Help Children Be Children’ to protect children from online sexual abuse.
People can now report images or videos of children suffering from sexual abuse online through the website www.stopit.ug. Once reported, the content in question will be assessed by IWF analysts and if found to contain child sexual abuse, it can be blocked and removed from the internet.
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